John Cioffi
Principal

Mr. Cioffi is an insightful, energetic and dynamic business coach with expertise in finance, marketing, operations, and strategic planning. He is a graduate of Colby College, and holds graduate degrees from Dartmouth College, and The Wharton School.

Mr. Cioffi’s clients include a variety of firms across the nation in the fields of consumer products, construction, engineering, surveying, specialty carrying and rigging, and computer software.

Past Positions
Managing Director, T.V. Metz & Company
Conducted mergers and acquisitions activities in US and internationally.

Principal, Bay Advisory Group
Conducted mergers and acquisitions activities in Northwest US.

Senior Consultant, Business Resource Services
Business planning and financial counselor to owners of successful U.S. and Canadian companies.

Vice President and General Manager, Ecova Corporation
Instituted the sale of this company to Amoco Oil and ran it as Amoco’s subsidiary

Vice President, Ecova Corporation
Directed the operations, marketing, and strategic planning of this biotech environmental firm

Director of Business Development, Biospherics, Inc.
Developed strategic marketing plans and created new business with major ethical drug firm

Department Manager, Mitre Corporation
Won and managed multi-million dollar contracts in scientific, economic, and public policy studies

Degrees

Current Ken Willig
Principal

Mr. Willig is a dynamic and aggressive visionary, and an experienced Entrepreneur-CEO coach. He specializes in strategic planning, succession planning of family owned companies, implementing effective goal-focused management systems and developing a customer-focused corporate culture. His consulting clients include the President/CEO of a variety of companies in the fields of construction, agriculture, engineering, real estate, manufacturing, medical consulting, tourism, telecommunications, retailing, professional services, insurance, and manufacturing.

Mr. Willig is an enthusiastic, high energy entrepreneur himself. After graduation from Purdue University, he founded and was CEO of numerous successful companies and two banks. His history of successes includes the founding, directing, and developing of a broad range of business ventures. He also designed, directed and taught the MBA entrepreneurial program at City University.

You can read a great deal more about Mr. Willig at www.FromPapaKenWithLove.com

Statement of Prior Experience and Qualifications

Founder of GoalMakers management consulting company.
Coaches successful Entrepreneur-CEO's through the transition from hands-on high control type management to delegation style management.

Director of Senior Consulting, Management Action Programs
Counselor to presidents and executive management teams of many successful companies.

Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship, City University Founder, Director and Instructor of the MBA entrepreneurial program of the Institute of Entrepreneurship.

"Entrepreneur of the Year"
In 1987 he received the Ernst & Young, Inc. Magazine and Merrill Lynch award for his achievements in founding, developing and growing a national chain of cellular telecommunication retail centers.

Director of the Institute of American Entrepreneurs
From among the recipients of the Entrepreneur of the Year award, he was elected to the Board.

President and Headmaster of Santa Fe Christian Schools
Completely reorganized the staff, faculty and curriculum of this private K through 12 school.

Co-Founder, Chairman and President, CelluLand, Inc.
As franchisor, developed a national chain of Cellular retail centers.

Co-Founder and Director, Laguna National Bank and Bank of Del Mar

Co-Founder, Chairman and President, John Wayne Tennis Club (renamed Palisades Tennis Club)
Ken is the only person that Wayne ever allowed to use his name on a commercial venture.

Director of Operations of Clark Equipment Company, CMD Branches
Directed the operations of eleven domestic companies owned by Clark Equipment.

Founder, Chairman and President, Willig Equipment Company He founded this his first company at age 28 and sold it at 34 to international Clark Equipment. where he directed the operation of eleven subsidiaries of Clark.

Former Directorships and Affiliations: Tim Riley
Principal

Tim Riley is a shirt-sleeve, results driven coach and board member with over 25 years of successful business experience.

Tim is presently a principal with GoalMakers, Inc., a company which has successfully helped business owners and their companies reach their goals on a consistent basis for over 19 years. Tim is also currently the CEO of AutoWash Systems LLC, a premier car wash development and support firm.

Prior to these duties, Tim was CEO of Point It search marketing, a well-respected pioneer in paid search engine management. Tim was also the founder and former CEO of Door to Door Storage, a convenience oriented approach to the self-storage business. Door to Door Storage grew under Tim’s leadership to a national presence serving over 2,000 cities. Under Tim’s leadership, Door to Door was twice named on Inc. Magazine’s 500 fastest growing private companies in America list and on the Puget Sound Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Private Companies list seven times.

Prior to that Tim was director of marketing for Shurgard Storage Centers and was an integral part of their expansion and successful IPO. Tim is a third generation native of the Seattle area where he lives with his wife and son. He is an active member and former board member of the Entrepreneur’s Organization and an alumnus and former board member of the Young President’s Organization and the Central Washington University Foundation.